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This book tells you HOW and WHY and WHEN to stretch. The photos make it easy to learn the various stretches. This book allows anyone to customize their own stetching program to exactly what their own focus needs to be. I use it as a powerlifter, my wife uses it as a dancer, my boss even used it…Read More
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You have to be careful throwing superlatives around when talking about a new idea or product lest you be mistaken for a brainless, giddy cheerleader. I tell you truly that 'Relax Into Stretch' is superb; I'd run out of superlatives and might sound like a cheerleader so I won't go the traditional praise route. Why is this book so important to the fitness community? Stretching has always been associated with any serious fitness effort and Tsatsouline's approach to this old discipline is fresh and unique and thought provoking. Best of all, this book combines philosophic insight with in-your-face reality as Pavel shares with the reader 'drills' that turn you into what this former Russian Spetznaz instructor calls ' a flexibility mutant'. What red-blooded American fitness devotee wouldn't aspire to mutation? This book supplies both the road map and the methodology. Don't ask to borrow my copy."
Marty Gallagher, WashingtonPost.com columnist,
World Masters Powerlifting Champion
"Pavel has great ideas on flexibility and strength exercises."
Bill Superfoot Wallace, M.Sc.,
World Kickboxing Champion
"Conventional stretching attempts to literally elongate your tissues, which is dangerous and ineffective. Relax into Stretch simply teaches your muscles to relax into a stretch. If you compare traditional training to a messy hardware reorganization, then Relax into Stretch is an efficient software upgrade.
While stretching tissues may take years, changes in the nervous system are immediate! Your muscles will start noticeably elongating from your first Relax into Stretch practice and within months you will have achieved a level of flexibility uncommon to our species."
Pavel Tsatsouline
Here's what you'll discover, when you possess your own copy of Pavel Tsatsouline's Relax Into Stretch:
Stretching is NOT the best way to become flexible
Waiting out the Tension
Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation
Isometric stretching rules!
Extreme flexibility through Contrast Breathing
Forced Relaxation
The final frontier:
Why you should not stretch your ligaments
Stretching when injured
The demographics of stretching
The details, the schedule: Isometric stretches
The Relax into Stretch drills
How much flexibility do you really need?
When flexibility is hard to come by, build strength
Two more plateau busting strategies from the iron world
Advanced Russian Drills for Extreme Flexibility
Relax into Stretch delivers instant flexibility! Page 138
This book tells you HOW and WHY and WHEN to stretch. The photos make it easy to learn the various stretches. This book allows anyone to customize their own stetching program to exactly what their own focus needs to be. I use it as a powerlifter, my wife uses it as a dancer, my boss even used it to get ready to take a ski vacation. A must for every athlete.
Pavel provides the ultimate in stretching techniques. If you have spent any time in your life being instructed to stretch tendons and ligaments, you now have the ability to lay those dangerous myths to rest and get on with stretching that not only works like a miracle but makes you feel incredibly good. So good I can't put it into words. Pavel will tell you the rest.
Relax Into Stretch will teach you how to be as flexible as a yoga student while being as strong as you wish, all from a few minutes per day two or three times per week. Relax Into Stretch is for people who want to be both flexible and strong, and the principles it will teach you can help you stay strong and injury-free in all the activities of your daily life, not just stretching.
I had a severely herniated lumbar disc a few years back; Pavel's "Power To The People!" was the beginning of my salvation, his "Russian Kettlebell Challenge" taught me to add endurance and some flexibility to my strength, and "Relax Into Stretch" was the icing on the cake, teaching me how to go from not being able to touch my toes to being able to do splits within the space of 6 months while almost 50 years old!
Picture of me in a split - that says it all, and I owe it all to "Relax Into Stretch.
Pavel lines out more information on stretching than I got during the entire 6 years I spent earning a Bachelors degree in exercise physiology and Masters in physical therapy! The information is clear, easy to read, and works like a charm! I've stretched fairly aggressively over the years with the knowledge I had, but I've made significant gains over the past couple weeks with the information contained on these pages! If you want to do the splits you should get this book!
I bought the book as a supplement to the DVD. Frankly the book is quite expensive, and I was concerned whether the amount of material contained therein is worth the cost. However, the quality of the information, on both the DVD and the book, most certainly is. I am recovering from a back injuty that had me laid out for 5 weeks. Part of the reason for the injury, I am convinced, was from a lack of flexibility. Too much muscle and not enough flexibility. I intend to use Relax Into Stretch and Super Joints, along with yoga and other stretching routines, to ensure I never go though that again. I can already say, it is working well in this regard!
I have purchased almost every book and video on stretching available, and without question this is the best, in my opinion. A great source of information and options for every stretch. A great book to own, particularly for martial artists! Worth more than I paid for it!
One of the best books on stretching I've read. More than just a collection of stretching exercises. It includes essential descriptions of how to make your muscles relax, so you can stretch them to better results.
My boyfriend loves this book -- great pictures and good reading and humor from the author - thanks
I would automatically give this book the highest possible rating on any scale because I've yet to learn about a more effective method of developing flexibility. When I first read this book, I was 6 inches from doing a full side split and couldn't go down any further. This book provides a method that will work when all else fails. After six weeks of using the principles contained in this book in my own flexibility training, I did my first full side split. However, it is very tough. I think that the process of developing extreme flexibility is inevitably painful and uncomfortable. However, this book teaches a person how to distinguish between the pain of progress and the pain of injuring yourself. Lots of the former will result in all the flexibility a person could ever possibly need. I have tried a lot of stretching programs and I would recommend this one because it is the most efficient that I have seen and the only one that I think would guarantee results.
My own interest in this company started with kettlebells and got diverted by Convict Conditioning. Five months into my CC 1 and 2 work, I bought this and Superjoints at the same time. For CC2 people, think of the stretches in this book as being a perfect complement to the Trifecta stretches.Though I've only had this and Superjoints a little over two weeks, and have been a little spotty in my application of them, the results were instantaneous. My hip flexors have always been a little tight- that is no longer the case, and the results stay with you. I would suggest that anyone who has the cash purchase the DVD to go along with the book. I did not, and wish I had. As of right now, my 36 year old frame feels better than ever in my life; most of this I attribute to CC, but that's just because I've had more time to get to grips with the material. That said, I went to my Shotokan class the day after finishing up with all the groin stretching variations, and it was personally satisfying for this white-yellow belt to be more flexible than the brown, red, and black belts. HA. In fact, my all around strength and endurance is outclassing theirs in most of the pure workout stuff.In a couple of months, I'll be purchasing the Enter The Kettlebell set, and add kettlebells to my routine. My intuition is telling me that I'll be at the end of my search for a fitness regime, at least for the next couple of years. This way I'll be able to meet the challenges of life in a body that is more fit than ever.One last thing. I've seen some griping about price. My advice? Get over it. Pavel went to school for this stuff, and is giving us the distilled essence of his knowledge. Also, a $35 dollar investment that will help you avoid going to a hospital for as long as possible is priceless.
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Johannes Vermeer, A Young Woman standing at a Virginal, c.1670-72 © The National Gallery, London
Great Art on Screen
Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure
Sunday, October 20, 2013
3:00 pm
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The final installment of the EXHIBITION series, Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure takes an in-depth look at the major exhibition at the National Gallery in London. Michael Cassin, Director of the Center for Education in the Visual Arts, will introduce the film and host a question-and-answer session afterwards.Tickets are $12 ($10 members and students). Click here to purchase tickets or call 413 458 0524.
Johannes Vermeer, painter of Girl with a Pearl Earring, painted little more than thirty works that still exist. The National Gallery has chosen to focus on his art in relation to music, one of the most popular themes of Dutch painting. The cinema event provides a comprehensive biography of Vermeer and shows in detail many of the artist's great works.
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Spina Bifida
Spina Bifida Overview
Spina bifida ("cleft spine") is a birth defect affecting the spinal column. Spina bifida progresses from a cleft, or splitlike opening, in the back part of the backbones (the spinal vertebrae). In more severe cases, it involves the spinal cord. Spina bifida is the most common of a group of birth defects known as neural tube defects, which affect the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord).
Spina bifida begins in the womb, when the tissues that fold to form the neural tube do not close or do not stay closed completely. This causes an opening in the vertebrae, which surround and protect the spinal cord. This occurs just a few weeks (21 to 28 days) after conception—usually before the woman knows that she is pregnant.
The term "spina bifida" often is used interchangeably with myelomeningocele, since this is the type of spina bifida that causes the vast majority of disability. Fortunately, surgery is an effective treatment in most people with spina bifida. Most infants with an open spine or myelomeningocele undergo surgery within the first 48 hours of life to close the defect. Antibiotics are given to prevent infection of the exposed spinal cord and nerves until these structures can be protected by surgery.
Spina bifida is one of the most common severe birth defects, historically occurring in 1 live birth per 1000 in the United States. The rates of spina bifida are higher in Hispanics and whites of European descent than in Ashkenazi Jews, Asians, and African Americans. Rates are also higher among mothers with certain health problems, such as diabetes or seizure disorders (taking certain anticonvulsants), and significantly higher among couples in which at least one has spina bifida, and among couples who have already had a child with spina bifida.
The outlook for spina bifida has improved remarkably in the last decade. Not only have advanced surgical techniques improved quality of life for people born with spina bifida, but evolving approaches to early diagnosis have even opened the possibility of corrective surgery while still in the womb. Furthermore, studies completed in the 1990s showed that as many as 70% of cases of neural tube defects could be prevented by adequate intake of folic acid immediately before and in early pregnancy. A rigorous program of public education and fortification of popular foods with folic acid in the United States has decreased the rate of neural tube defects by about 20% in just a few years.
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Bring a hearty appetite and be prepared to feast – As we were attending a performance at Capital Rep that night, we searched online for a nearby restaurant with good reviews. Hudson Harbor Steak & Seafood proved the perfect choice. Both the steak and seafood came in immense portions, and were extremely well prepared; although we protested we could never finish so much food, we both did pretty well (and that included the warm, yummy bread and a shared piece of chocolate cake too!) Service was very friendly and professional (a very cute young man, who was apparently the owners' son) and made the whole dining experience even better. Highly recommended by us, and we will return again.
Perfect Night! – We joined our parents for their anniversary and the food, service, atmosphere was excellent! The server suggested that we have dessert out on the deck. It was wonderful! AND we could even see Mars from our table :) HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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World Ocean Census - Extract 26 - The path forward
14 September 2010
Some news stories of the past decade are shocking, almost unbelievable. They range from the "great Pacific garbage patch" – a flotilla of trash nearly the size of Africa that tends to trap and kill marine life – to reports of massive coral reef bleaching and destruction, to vast dead zones, void of oxygen, that can no longer support life. When you dig deeper, past the headlines, into what scientists have actually discovered, some of the stories become more convincing, and in some cases the news is truly ominous.
Scientists estimate, for example, that half of the coral reefs in the Caribbean and a quarter of the reefs around the world are now dead. It is believed that this devastation is mainly due to pollution, physical destruction and increasing ocean water temperatures, a direct result of global warming (most coral species can survive only in very narrow temperature ranges). Complicating their survival further is the rise in concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). This is causing changes in the ocean's carbonate chemistry system that will affect some of the most fundamental biological and geochemical processes of the sea. Since 1980, ocean uptake of excess CO2 released into Earth's atmosphere by human activities is significant: about a third has been stored in the oceans. This uptake of CO2 lowers the ocean's pH, making it more acidic, which in turn causes lower saturation states of the carbonate minerals used to form skeletal structures by many major groups of marine organisms, including corals. Scientists predict that if nothing is done to correct this condition, all of the remaining coral reefs could be dead by 2075.
Another disturbing story is about the large dead zone off the coast of Namibia. Scientists are measuring it as they watch it expand year after year. The only inhabitants that remain in this zone are jellyfish, often described as the cockroaches of the sea in recognition of their ability to thrive under adverse conditions. While larger than many, Namibia's dead zone is not unique. A 2008 report in Science by Robert J. Diaz, from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, and Rutger Rosenberg, of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, suggests that there are now more than 400 dead zones around the world, double what the United Nations reported only two years earlier. Collectively, these dead zones affect a total area in the world's ocean of more than 245,000 square kilometers (98,000 square miles).
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The Dawson Community College Annual 2013 Fall Juried Student Art Show Reception and Awards Presentation, was held on Tuesday, December 10.
Art Lovers President Mike Simons, Biology instructor Jennifer Temple and Director of Finance Kathleen Zander took on the challenge of choosing the winners from over 100 works of art.
Gretchen Bederman, Art Instructor at DCC, is proud to announce the winners in each of nine categories.
As Dawson Community College students, faculty, staff and administration anticipate Thanksgiving break, Sue Peterson, DCC Assistant Librarian, prepares to draw the winning tickets for "Club 300 Art Students After Hours" second 50/50 Raffle on Tuesday November 26th. Club 300 President Lorraine Cronin spins the ticket cage and voila Sue reveals the three winners. Third Place winner of the fruit and candy basket went to Marilyn Green, art student and DEAP assistant.
The Dawson Community College Art Department is proud to present the outstanding art works of the talented and creative student artists of Dawson Community College. Forty-five students will be exhibiting their artwork in the Dawson Community College 2013 8th Annual Fall Juried Student Art Show. Show runs Monday November 22 – Thursday December 12
Awards & Artist Reception
Tuesday December 10th at 3:30 p.m.
Tickets for the twenty-first annual Dawson Community College Madrigal Dinner are on sale now at the DCC business office. The Madrigal Dinner will be held in the Toepke Center Lobby on December 7. Transformed into the Renaissance castle, doors open at 5:30 p.m. with feasting and festivities commencing at 6. Characters will delight castle guests with vocal and instrumental music, jesters, jugglers, actors, and dancers. Time honored processions featuring Wassail, Boar's Head, and Flaming Pudding transport the audience throughout the evening.
Scheduled for Thanksgiving Morning, Thursday, November 28th, 2013 at 9 a.m. Dawson Community College's Office of Community Involvement and the Glendive Community are hosting the 4th Annual Bucky's Turkey Trot to benefit the Dawson County Food Bank. Originally started by 2010 by DCC Campus Corp Team it has become a holiday event raising over 650lbs of food and $3,000 for the Dawson County Food Bank last year.
Winners of the 5th Annual Halloween Art Contest sponsored by the Dawson Community College ASB, Write Club and Art Department were announced Monday. The competition was open to aspiring art students. Barrett Jordan, IT Specialist, and Jane Wynne, Director of Public Relations judged the art works submitted. To help fund their future creative interests, all winners received a cash award.
Dawson Community College Volleyball coach, Gerry Standridge, is pleased to announce sophomore Lindsey James #15 made the Region IX 2013 All Tournament Team and sophomore Amy Van Hienen #9 made the the 2013 All Region IX Team for the season. Both Lindsey and Amy play the outside hitter position on the Lady Bucs volleyball team.
The Dawson Community College admissions team will hold View Day November 11, 2013 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Once again the college is offering a Tuition Drawing for 2014-15. Those who enter must participate in View Day to win. (Drawing is for Fall/Spring tuition-in state value). The winner is announced at lunch on View Day.
DCC music department students are currently selling pottery mugs with your choice of DCC, DCC Alumni, DCC Mom or DCC Dad inscription. The hand thrown pottery mugs are created by alumnus, Amanda Heimbuch. In addition, the department continues their yearly Sturgis Coffee sales and Hansen's beef sticks, cheese, soup mix and much more. Contact Lisa Shields or any music student for more information at 406.377.9456 or lshields @dawson.edu. Sales will continue through November 8 and arrive for holiday delivery. Thank you for supporting music department activities and events.
Suela Cela, originally from Lushnje, Albania, instructs the Italian Culture, Culinary & Conversation Workshop at Dawson Community College, October 26 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Cela uses a photo history presentation that includes art, food, conversation, and travel strategies in her unique introduction to Italy workshop.


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Welcome to the 2013-2014 school year at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History!
Downloadable School Field Trip Planner 2013 - 2014 - PDF
We have some great things in store for you this year and we can't wait to get started. We are committed to bringing powerful first-hand learning experiences to you and your students that will enhance and support your curriculum.
There is something for everyone at the Museum, from our exhibitions and Innovation Studios and Gallery, to the Fort Worth Children's Museum Gallery, Noble Planetarium and the Omni Theater. The Cattle Raisers Museum and the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame join us in providing a safe, accessible and flexible experience for you and your students.
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Parenting Perspectives: There's nothing worse than seeing your child in painI was probably a little naïve going into it.
Of course the last one went fine, even though he cried. The gal got it on the first poke, no problems. He got a Muppets sticker.
By: Kerri Kava, INFORUM
I was probably a little naïve going into it.
Of course the last one went fine, even though he cried. The gal got it on the first poke, no problems. He got a Muppets sticker. Well, he got a few actually, but don't tell anyone. We walked out of there to find the sun shining on our faces and smiles came again, soon after. The tears were quickly forgotten.
This time was much more difficult. Not only had the gal I'd grown to depend on for my son's blood draws drop the ball, but my son became much more difficult to restrain. We couldn't hold him down with just one or even two people anymore. No, now it took a whopping four people to restrain and draw blood from his tiny little arm, searching and seeking for his tiny little blood vessel.
This painful process repeats itself every two months in order to check his calcium levels and maintain a level he can live with.
My son, Carter, who has a rare genetic disorder called Williams syndrome (WS), has high probability of getting Hypercalcimia (too much calcium in his blood). For some reason, people with WS absorb calcium at an extremely higher rate than the rest of us. Due to its rarity, it's under-researched, leaving most of us who want to know, left to wonder and wait.
Left untreated, Hypercalcimia can cause body pains, kidney stones, and it could cause your heart to stop. That being said, we do the one thing we know how to do – sustain it with diet so he doesn't have to undergo cumbersome Pamidronate infusions. It involves drinking as much water as possible to flush out the calcium and replacing regular milk with a special formula called Calcilo. Taking both of these steps is fine with us, it's the blood check every two months that's becoming more strenuous. (Although much less strenuous than the infusions.)
We've all been there. Sitting, standing, whatever position you find yourself in while your child is screaming in pain. I can name no other circumstances similar to that emotion. That feeling where your child is hurting and you, their No. 1 advocate, rendered motionless.
I sputtered some words, which I know he didn't hear over his agonizing cries. I'm almost sure I just say them out loud because I know the staff members want me to say something. So really, I just say it for them because there is no reasoning with a child who is screaming in pain. Especially not mine who has special needs and doesn't understand reason.
After all of that, Carter's lab technician couldn't find the vein. Let's face it: We've been drawing blood from these little arms for all of his four years of life, since he was 5 weeks old. Isn't it obvious by now? Would placing a stick-on tattoo with an arrow be going too far? I'm starting to think it would be appreciated.
Everyone says different things. Go to the main lab between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., because that is when the most experienced technicians are on duty. So we do. Believe you me, it is much more convenient to wait until Saturday, but we don't do that in hopes to have a quick and (not as) painful blood draw.
Others suggest we try nitrous. Well, we've done that for other things and due to his short gag reflex, he made himself throw up. Still, I think we're going to try that again, in addition to some cream to numb some of the pain.
I wish we could take away all of the pain. As parents, I'm sure we would all do that in a heartbeat.
Perhaps it's that very pain we experience, as part of motherhood, that is the pain our mothers wish they could take from us as well.
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Campo S.Giacomo Da L'Oro, Venice, Italy
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Riva di Biasio, Venice
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Cappadocia, Turkey
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Former Greek church from 1849. In 1950 it had been changed into a prison. In the middle of the church they have built a second floor and several...
Asmali Cave House in Uchisar, Cappadocia, Turkey
Roof terrace of the small apartment hotel Asmali Cave House in Uchisar.
Meryem Ana Church / old Prison, Cappadocia, Turkey
After the Turkish-Greek people exchange in 1923, this church was first used to store goods. In 1950 it had been changed into a prison. In the...
The Tuff Rocks of Uchisar, Cappadocia
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Villa Yakomoz, Kas, Turkey
Living room in a wonderful holiday villa (Villa Yakomoz) at the Turkish mediterranean sea, opposit the Greek island Kastellorizo.
Villa Yakomoz, Kas, Turkey
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Cave-house rocks, Uchisar, Cappadocia, Turkey
Late afternoon in the valley between the cave-house-rocks of Uçhisar, one of the most faszinating villages in Cappadocia. UNESCO World Heritage


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In the mind of most any longtime Connecticut resident, Stamford is not one of the Big Three. Hartford, New Haven and Bridgeport, the old-line, core New England cities, all are anchors for suburban towns that grew up in the post-World War II era, and all struggle with a legacy of poverty.
Stamford, an edge city with corporate and media spillover from New York — and no suburbs — remains smaller than the Big Three in that vision.
DATABASE: Has your town's population grown?
No longer. Census data being released Thursday show that Stamford passed Hartford in population in 2012 by the thin margin of 216 resident souls — 125,109 to 124,893.
Bridgeport remains the state's largest city at 146,425, and New Haven, which used its Yale-based stability to overtake the capital city in the '90s, stands at 130,741, according to the new census estimates.
Surprising? Not to people who have followed the direction of these places. Stamford is the fastest-growing city in a slow-growing state — not despite its heritage as a smaller, edge city, but because of it.
Consider: In 1950, when Hartford was at its peak with 177,073 people, larger than Bridgeport or New Haven, Stamford had fewer than 75,000 residents.
To understand how Stamford evolved, certainly it's important to look at I-95 and the train line that has become America's busiest intercity rail corridor, just 50 minutes to midtown Manhattan. Stamford's welcoming of such New York exiles as GTE Corp., with its upside-down, square-wedding-cake building, was the hallmark of a modernist state and local economic strategy that later snagged two giant investment banks, and more recently lured NBC Sports and a bevy of other media companies.
What about the residents of Stamford? In recent years the city has grown by a tad less than 1 percent a year, sluggish by Texas standards, while Hartford has remained flat. Some of the new Stamford addresses are townhouses and low-rise apartments near downtown, a triumph of mixed-income urban development.
But to really understand the city's long-term growth, first think of the neighborhoods in the state's other largest cities. Old blocks of stores, multifamily houses, one-story commercial buildings, a few tree-canopied streets with stately homes lined up in rows.
Stamford has that, for sure. But now take a drive up High Ridge Road, past the Merritt Parkway into a landscape that simply doesn't come to mind when you think of the third-largest city in an old industrial state. Find Rock Rimmon Road — you'll need a map or some luck — and travel along a meandering, two-lane byway flanked by stone walls, thick hedges, ponds and estates on multi-acre parcels, some valued at well over $1 million.
And it's not just that one road.
"There are parts of Stamford that are back-country Greenwich," said Michael Freimuth, who was Stamford's economic development director under then-Mayor Dannel P. Malloy, and is now executive director of the Capital Region Development Authority in Hartford. "There are homes up there that would blow your mind."
Those homes are hardly the source of population growth, of course. But they are the source of stability and a tax base that has girded Stamford for economic success, laying the groundwork for a new generation of business growth that brings jobs and people to the city's core.
That broad swath of middle-class stability that anchors Stamford tends to exist outside the grasp of the traditional Big Three, over the city lines in places like Bloomfield, Hamden and Trumbull. Stamford made a brilliant move in 1948, in Freimuth's view, joining the old Stamford city with Stamford town, the suburb.
Add that to the fact that Stamford's neighbors — Greenwich to the west, Bedford and Pound Ridge, N.Y., to the north and New Canaan to the east — want no part of residential growth, and boom!
"If you wanted to be in that marketplace, you had one town that would take you, and that was Stamford," Freimuth said. "It's got a blended economic base and it's got a blended political base and it's been able to drive its development to its most optimum point, to the train and the highway, not sprawling across the entire region."
Stamford gained some momentum, though not as much as many predicted, after the 9/11 attacks when financial firms moved from downtown New York, and it has gained mightily from the hedge fund boom, run by managers who live in nearby mansions and estates.
Malloy was credited with leveraging these forces that were pushing on the city before he was elected governor in 2010.
"It's not just the push on the string; you've got a guy who's willing to pull on the string," said David Panagore, a development consultant and interim New Haven parking authority chief who was until last year the chief operating officer of the city of Hartford. "And in the last couple of years, Stamford has been able to access state and federal grants."


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To the outsider, Karyn Evans appears to have it all under control. A CMP and CMM, the 40-year-old is principal planner of meeting and event services for Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America, mother of a 4-year-old daughter and stepmother of two adults, wife of an exec who spends 90 percent of the workweek on the road, and an active volunteer in her community.
Oh, and she's beautiful and thin, too.
But don't hate her too much. She struggles with balancing the same overload of responsibilities and desires as anyone else. The details might change, but the challenge remains the same — too much to do and not enough time to do it in.
"People see that I have a well-adjusted child, a good home life, a great job, and they want to know how I do it all and stay sane," says Evans. "But it's impossible to believe that I can give 100 percent to everything all the time. I think a woman can have it all, but not everything can always be equal."
The Quest for Balance
Evans is not alone in trying to figure out how to do it all. Female or male, partnered or single, parent or not, the quest for work-life balance has become so encompassing that it's spawned an entire industry of consultants, seminars, and books. And in a field where women dominate (approximately 77 percent of Financial & Insurance Conference Planners members are women), the quest is even more challenging.
While flex time, job sharing, and compressed workweeks are becoming more common in the workplace, they haven't really caught on in meeting planning departments, where frequent travel makes such perks difficult to manage. As well, in today's wired world, employees are often expected to give 110 percent as a matter of course. "Women have not come such a long way after all," notes Linda Edgecombe, a professional speaker, trainer, and author based in British Columbia, who led a workshop on work-life balance at FICP's 2006 annual meeting. "Not only do most women still make significantly less money than men for doing the same job, [FIM's reader survey conducted in late 2005 showed a gender gap of nearly $30,000 between average salaries of men and women] but the average working woman continues to do the bulk of the work at home as well."
Take Control
Nonetheless, many women today are taking an active role in shaping both the workplace and their home lives in ways that allow them to better balance the two. In 2004, to accommodate a move to Atlanta due to her husband's job change, Evans proposed to her Minneapolis-based company a six-month telecommuting trial from her new home. At the time, she was manager of meeting and event services. "Because I was involved in quite a few events that still needed to be executed, we agreed that I would remain an employee, see those events through, and then reevaluate," she says. "We do have remote employees, but we'd never had a remote meeting planner, so it was a unique situation."
Two and a half years later, Evans' title has changed from manager to principal planner, and the telecommuting arrangement continues to serve her needs and the company's needs. "If the move to Atlanta hadn't come about, I would have continued to happily work in my management capacity in the Minneapolis office," says Evans, who was featured in a 2002 FIM article about "rising stars" within the insurance industry. "However, as often happens with spouses, you have to make tough choices for the other person's career aspirations. I've appreciated the opportunity to remain focused and committed to my new position within Allianz."
When it comes to the day-to-day execution of her job, "There are people in Minneapolis who still don't know that I work out of Atlanta," laughs Evans. "They dial my extension and it rolls right to my home office. It's no secret, of course, that she works from a remote location; it was simply a well-organized move.
But this doesn't mean her workload has decreased. The lack of commute time allows Evans to jump right in first thing in the morning and continue working at night, when necessary, after she's picked up her daughter from preschool. "I so appreciate this opportunity," says Evans, who is also quick to volunteer for extra work. "I'll go the extra mile as a thank-you to the company."
Be Flexible
Other planners maintain balance by working for companies that allow flexibility. While The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co., in Horsham, Pa., does not have an option for meeting planners to telecommute, director of conference planning and travel services Leanne Acton, CMM, notes that she can work from home when necessary. "If one of my children is sick," she says, "no one ever questions me. We all help each other out. There is flexibility and openness as long as it doesn't interfere with your work."
To that end, when Acton had her first child in 2004, she brought both him and her mother with her on business trips while she was still nursing. "My mother came along to baby-sit while I was working," she says. "We're a family-oriented company, so there are often children at our conferences, but I think I was the only one in this particular position."
For the ultimate flexibility, though, you can't beat starting your own company. That's what Michelle DeClerck, CMP, did, in part because of the uncompensated extra hours required in her former position and in part because she wanted to spend more time with her children. Today an independent meeting consultant based in Clive, Iowa, who specializes in the financial and insurance market, she says that when she was an in-house planner, "My children suffered from having to get up so early to go to daycare, and I rarely came home from work on time. I also wanted to control my own travel schedule." The strategy has been successful for DeClerck, mother of a nine-year-old daughter and an 11-year-old son. "Even though I work more now, I can control my time and be available for my kids' needs.
Manage the Overload
Whatever your work situation is, a key to balance is knowing that sometimes something has to give. Many planners we spoke with had to let go of the idea of managing everything on the home front themselves. "I outsource anything and everything I can," says Acton. "I have someone come in to clean the house, do online grocery shopping, and prepare my dinners in bulk." She also puts her organizational skills to work at home. "At the start of each week, I lay out clothes for both kids for the whole week," she says, "so every morning we can just grab and go."
DeClerck, too, takes a business-like approach to managing her home. "Before I leave for a business trip, I create a spreadsheet and we have a family meeting to go over schedules," she says. "My non-meeting-planner friends enjoy a few chuckles at my expense, but everything works like clockwork when I'm away." She also has a housecleaning team and a personal chef to alleviate some of the burden.
Another way to control the overload: Leave work at the office rather than take it home on a regular basis. "My previous boss wanted 120 percent," says Cindy Wheaton, CMP, manager of group meetings and incentives for Columbus, Ohio-based Nationwide Financial Network. "He would call me on weekends to do things, and I was happy to accommodate him since he also gave me a lot of freedom in how to do things. But at some point, you realize you can't work all the time. Over the past five or six years, I've learned that you can't devote 24/7 to the job and still be effective. Learning how to turn it off has been a process for me."
As a single woman who does not have children, Wheaton acknowledges that she doesn't have the challenges of juggling piano lessons, soccer games, and school plays with work, but that's not to say she doesn't have other competition for her time and energy, including serving on the board of FICP (she's currently vice president of sponsorship). One thing she's remained firm on is not having a computer at home. "I have my BlackBerry," she says, "so I'm still connected, but I don't have full Internet access."
Lori Hedrick, CMP, has come to the same conclusions as Wheaton about leaving work in the office, but she had a little push from her manager to get there. As meeting and event planner/assistant vice president of meeting and event services for Wachovia Corp., in Winston-Salem, N.C., Hedrick has been on the road about 80 percent of the time for the past few years. On top of that, "I used to come home and tell myself I was just going to do just a few things — and end up working till midnight," she says. "Besides the toll it was taking on me and my personal life, I was under pressure from my manager to slow it down. She kept telling me I was doing too much, that some things could just wait till the next day." Now, notes Hedrick, she has "programmed myself that once I get home, I'm not going to do any more work."
Set Boundaries at Home
Those who work from home have more flexibility, but the boundaries can easily blur. "Good, bad, or indifferent, it's easy to just keep working," says Evans. "The office is right here all the time." One thing she quickly changed was the physical location of her home workplace. "It was originally in a loft on our second floor, but every time I walked up the stairs I would see the computer — and the work waiting for me. I moved the office to an actual room, where I could close the door, and that helped me feel that I was giving myself a bit of space."
Evans also makes an effort to prioritize. "I try my best to not work on the weekends or, if I need to work in the evenings, to wait until after my daughter has gone to bed — but sometimes I do have to pop in a movie for her, or hire a mother's helper to come play with her while I'm working on a project."
DeClerck has a table set up in her office "so that the kids can do homework there and be near me even though I'm working." Still, she notes, "Having children forces me to get away from the office. I used to work around the clock and now I have a great reason to force myself to stop." If she forgets? "My husband reminds me the day's over!"
Make Tough Choices
Sometimes the trade-offs are difficult. "I've had to limit my travel to what's really necessary," says Acton. "That meant I couldn't go to the FICP annual meeting this year, for example. But if I have to choose between a site visit and professional development, it's really not a choice — I have to do the site visit."
Evans has had to cut back on supplier-sponsored evening events. "It's a trade-off between attending these events and spending some time with my daughter — and I choose my daughter." If there's one major thing that Evans has given up, "it's time for myself," she says. "I don't take the time to eat as well as I'd like, and I wasn't exercising. But we added a gym to the basement so I can get on the treadmill while my daughter practices ballet right next to me. It's so important to be able to multi-task — this way I can get in some exercise and spend some time with Elle."
Evans also makes adjustments to other areas of her life to ensure time with her daughter. "I feel that being a volunteer is very important, so on the weekends, I carve out some hours and plan children's events in our community as a volunteer," says Evans. "It's nice because it gives Elle and me the chance to have fun together — and she sees how important it is to reach out to others."
Because of Hedrick's frequent travel, she says, "I feel bad when there's something special that my husband wants to do with me, like go to an antique auction, and I can't because I'm traveling." To make up for that, "I make sure we do something he wants to do when we're on vacation, usually something sports-related, even though all I really want to do is stay home."
Get Help
At some point, every overloaded planner needs the help of others, be it from family, friends, neighbors, paid help, or even the kids themselves.
"I have friends and family who will take the shirts off their backs to help out," says Acton. "I know because I've tested them!"
Although Evans left family and friends behind in Minneapolis, she was fortunate to discover that several of her neighbors also work from home. "We get together once a month for lunch just to get out of our home offices," she says, "and talk about the trials and tribulations of everything from DSL lines going down to Word document mail merges." These days, instead of borrowing a cup of sugar, she knows just whose house she can run over to if she needs to borrow a ream of paper.
The best support is often sitting right across the kitchen table. "It was at my husband's persuading that I started my own meeting planning venture to begin with," says DeClerck, "and I could not be successful without his daily encouragement." When she's on the road, he takes charge of the kids, and "is wonderful at maintaining family life." DeClerck also gets support from her pre-teen children. "We've been able to take them with us on trips all over the world," she notes, citing a trip to Tahiti during the last Thanksgiving holiday as one example. "My children insisted on coming along with me for the site inspections," she says, "and my son took the photos. It's a stitch to hear the two of them make comments about what they've seen — they've become miniature hotel experts!" Her son has already told her he wants to take over the business when he grows up.
Even Evans' young daughter is intrigued by her mom's interesting job. "Elle asks if she can help me with work," says Evans. "She's only four, but when I give her a highlighter and some old reports, she feels like she's helping mommy to get her job done. I've worked full-time since she was born and she knows that mommy is a meeting planner, and I love that. I can be a positive role model for my daughter while doing the work I love."
Getting Back on Track
In trying to balance it all, the first thing that often gets sacrificed is the "me" time for activities or hobbies — the very things that stimulate and energize us. British Columbiabased trainer Linda Edgecombe, who presented a workshop on work-life balance at FICP's 2006 annual meeting, has an answer: Take control. "Balance itself doesn't really exist, so the first thing is to let go of the idea that it can be achieved," she says. "But if we have a sense of control over the decisions we're making, if we're more accountable for our lives outside of work, we can go back to the office with a renewed sense of energy." Some of her suggestions for relatively painless ways to get your life on track include:
Move your body, at work and home. It doesn't matter what it is — walking, cycling, running — just move around at every break.
Find "your own funny." Edgecombe points out that there can be quirkiness and funniness in anything you do — you just need to find it.
Work, although serious, can also be amusing and fun. Find the people who make you laugh.
Spend some quiet time, whether it's in the bathtub, a house of worship, on a walk, or in meditation. Too busy for quiet? Try putting away the laptop and just staring out the window for a bit the next time you're on an airplane.
Write down five goals, large or small, that you want to achieve this year. The mere process of putting pen to paper is the first step in actually achieving the goals.
Not for Women Only
Pick up your child at the after-school program, prepare dinner, oversee the homework, have a little family time, tuck the kids in, and go back to the office: It's a scenario that's familiar to many a working mother. These days, it also resonates with working fathers — including Michael Burke, CMP, manager of conference and travel services for The Hanover Insurance Group, based in Worcester, Mass.
Burke's department handles roughly 300 meetings a year. He's on the road about 25 percent of the time. He's also a board member of Financial & Insurance Conference Planners (as immediate past president, he's currently serving as design team chair of FICP's annual conference) and father of two.
Burke and his wife Nicole, a revenue manager for two Courtyard by Marriott properties, manage the workload with a divide-and-conquer approach. "I have 'night duty' with the kids and house," says Burke, "and Nicole has 'morning duty.' She gets into the office later than she likes, so she makes up time on the back end."
Both are fortunate to have job flexibility, so, for example, when one of their sons is sick, it's not unusual for each to work from home for a half day. They're also lucky to have supportive co-workers, as well as family members nearby who can lend a hand — such as Burke's in-laws, who have a regular Wednesday afternoon baby-sitting gig with the kids, and his father and sisters, who help out on school vacations.
"If I need or want to take time for family responsibilities, I have the support of my manager and company," notes Burke. "I don't know if it's perceived differently because I'm a man. Historically, women have been the primary care givers, but it's becoming more common for men to share the responsibility."
Burke admits that hobbies are limited to family and home-improvement projects — plus his volunteerism with FICP. "I don't know what the actual definition of work-life balance would be. If it's 50/50 as a percent of time, I'm not sure that's possible. But if you put the same effort into both, you'll be as close as you can to achieving a balance," he says. "If the job becomes more important than the family, it's time to reevaluate."


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- Hometown: Nairobi, Kenya
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Among the top butterfly and sprint freestylers in Africa is Kenyan, Jason Dunford. In 2005, Jason started his collegiate swimming career at Stanford, and further developed his skill to become a top athlete in the sport. In 2006, he won Kenya's first gold medal at the African Swimming Championships only to follow it up as a finalist in the World Championships the next year. Jason then went on to make his first Olympic team in 2008 where he finished 5th in the 100m butterfly – his signature event. Since then, Jason has trained, competed and placed as a top finisher in countless competitions. In 2012, Jason went to London for a second Olympics and made semi-finals in the 100m butterfly.
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- 2008 and 2012 Olympic Qualifier
- 4th place at 2011 World Championship
- 5th place at 2008 Olympic Games in 100m Butterfly
- Current 100m Butterfly African Record Holder
- Butterfly gold medalist at the Commonwealth Games (1st medal won for Kenya)
- 6-time medalist at the 2011 All-African Games
- 14-time All American & 10-Time PAC 10 Champion at Stanford University